Vervet monkey

Chlorocebus pygerythrus · Cercopithecidae

The vervet monkey, or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa. The term "vervet" is also used to refer to all the members of the genus Chlorocebus. The five distinct subspecies can be found mostly throughout Southern Africa, as well as some of the eastern countries.

Where the Vervet monkey lives

Recorded in South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Uganda (Africa).

Most records fall in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Rift Valley, Eastern Cape and Arusha.

See the Vervet monkey’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 13,892 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.